On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 10:06:52AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > >>>>> "CW" == Colin Watson <[email protected]> writes: > CW> It is not necessarily appropriate to be able to reconfigure every item > CW> shown by debconf-show, because some of them may be used for internal > CW> state tracking by the package's maintainer scripts, or depend on the > CW> current situation at the time when the maintainer scripts are run; > > OK then please mention that on man dpkg-reconfigure.
No, I don't see any need to change the debconf documentation here. dpkg-reconfigure(8) says that it will ask configuration questions, not that it will ask every single thing mentioned in the output of debconf-show(1). > And also mention that on man dpkg-reconfigure that it has no secret > --double-force option to get a way to tinker with all the items shown > with debconf-show even if inappropriate, like you said: It also doesn't have a --make-me-a-sandwich option, but I'm not going to spell out all the options it doesn't have. :-) -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
